On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:22:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > so my research into the state of Hurd is making me more and more > confused. I seem to gather from: > http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/NextHurd that some progress is > being made to get Hurdng going, though the mailing list archives seem > to be still discussing design issues rather than actual > development.
Right. > meanwhile, it seems that debian has the only working hurd branch at > the moment. But its running gnumach and therefor seems to be a deadend > what with most of the dev action at hurdng. Most of the dev action is targetted at Hurd/Mach currently. > the upshot of all this is that I'm left not knowing where to go. I'm > quite sure that I can get a basic hurd install going using the debian > stuff, but what good is that if its to be abandoned at some point? or > will the porting to a new microkernel and the architecture changes > discussed about hurdng (over at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) be more or less > compatible with the debian stuff? Debian will continue the Hurd/Mach port until a viable alternative exists, which will likely take a few years, if there will ever be one. As nobody knows how Hurd/NG will look like, a transition plan cannot be made at this point, and whether or not a Hurd/Mach installation can be migrated over is unknown. Do you plan to help the Hurd development? Unless you are a microkernel researcher, you can ignore Hurd/NG for the time being. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
